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Meningioma and mobile phone use--a collaborative case-control study in five North European countries.
Lahkola A, Salminen T, Raitanen J, Heinävaara S, Schoemaker M, Christensen HC, Feychting M, Johansen C, Klæboe L, Lönn S, Swerdlow A, Tynes T, Auvinen A. · 2008
View Original AbstractThis European study found mobile phone users had lower meningioma risk, but methodological limitations prevent concluding phones are protective.
Plain English Summary
Researchers studied 1,209 people with meningiomas (a type of brain tumor) and 3,299 healthy controls across five European countries to see if mobile phone use increases tumor risk. They found that regular mobile phone users actually had a 24% lower risk of developing meningiomas compared to non-users or occasional users. The study found no increased risk regardless of how long people used phones, how many calls they made, or what type of network they used.
Study Details
To evaluate the effect of mobile phones on risk of meningioma, we carried out an international, collaborative case-control study of 1209 meningioma cases and 3299 population-based controls.
Population-based cases were identified, mostly from hospitals, and controls from national population...
Risk of meningioma among regular users of mobile phones was apparently lower than among never or non...
Our results do not provide support for an association between mobile phone use and risk of meningioma.
Show BibTeX
@article{a_2008_meningioma_and_mobile_phone_3175,
author = {Lahkola A and Salminen T and Raitanen J and Heinävaara S and Schoemaker M and Christensen HC and Feychting M and Johansen C and Klæboe L and Lönn S and Swerdlow A and Tynes T and Auvinen A.},
title = {Meningioma and mobile phone use--a collaborative case-control study in five North European countries.},
year = {2008},
url = {https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18676984/},
}